Shocks the conscience is a phrase used as a legal standard in the United States and Canada. An action is understood to "shock the conscience" if it is...

possible that a potential punishment in the receiving country "shocks the conscience" to the extent that the Canadian government would breach fundamental...

that an action shocks the conscience collective because it is criminal, but rather that it is criminal because it shocks the conscience collective. We...

by the Supreme Court of the United States that added behavior that "shocks the conscience" into tests of what violates due process clause of the 14th...

Scalia's concurrence noted the irony in applying the "shocks the conscience" test in this case, since only last term the Court rejected it (Washington...

human beings; such denial of the right of existence shocks the conscience of mankind, results in great losses to humanity in the form of cultural and other...

test (an element of the Miller test) Reasonable expectation of privacy Clear and present danger Bad tendency Shocks the conscience test Wambaugh's inversion...

obtained, but only because the officers had used "conduct that shocks the conscience"—specifically, they had a doctor give the suspect an emetic to force...

unconstitutional under section 7 if it "shocks the conscience." In Kindler, the Court noted that while Canada itself had abolished the death penalty, Canada should...

suffix -cide by Raphael Lemkin in 1944; however, the precise etymology of the word is a compound of the ancient Greek word γένος ("birth", "genus", or "kind")...